Ultimately, I see my scholarship as dealing with issues of power relations as diffracted through sources and materials produced at a time of change, instability, and weak legitimacy. This work, as much as the volume Machiavelli, Islam, and the East, which I co-edited with Lucio Biasiori (Palgrave, 2018), is part of an ongoing attempt to complicate current approaches to the geographies of the early modern world. I have never thought of my research topics in isolation. An examination of the cross-fertilisation of historical writing in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it reconstructs a set of imaginative forms of account worked out from Mexico to the Moluccas and Peru, and from the shops of Venetian printers to the rival courts of Spain and England. My other major area of interest is in the Iberian religious world, with special regards to the Inquisition, mission, and the agency of converts. My latest book, The Globe on Paper (OUP, 2020), considers historiography as the centre of global interactions in the age of exploration. I have extensively worked in archives and libraries in the Iberian Peninsula, Latin America, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In particular, the focus of my research and writing has been on imperial ideology, race, and slavery.
I studied and taught in Italian universities before taking up my post at Oxford in 2017. I am an early modern historian with a strong interest in the experience of those who lived in the global empires of Spain and Portugal.
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